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What About Water?

For drought-stricken California, What About Water? should be the big question on everyone's mind.

It is also the apt title of one Festival film - part of a group of films that all give us a stark new perspective on our relationship with water.

In the case of What About Water? (May 31) we get the point of view of people in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point as we face up to what it means to live with less water.

This message rings loud and clear in Dry Season (May 29) where we see the daily water reality in Wilits, a northern Californian town suffering its worst drought in 500 years.

But despite the ongoing warnings for us to conserve, wasteful practices continue. A startling truth in A Dangerous Game(May 30) where we follow the impact globally of luxury golf developments. This sequel to You've Been Trumped takes these questions straight to Trump himself.

And we're also continuing to see investigations into water pollution - from industry wastewater spans the globe - from Mexico in Silent Riverto Taiwan in the film Black (both screened June 1).

There is a clear tension between water demand and supply in these films.

Yet, through every single one of these stories, we see people that stand up and make sure that something is being done about it. There is someone at the heart of each film that will make a difference.

It's clear that every drop counts. Take a look at our water themed films.

Black

Ke Chin-Yuan, Taiwan, 2014

There is an increasing tension in Taiwan between industry and agriculture as wastewater pollution contaminates the rice fields. Screens with Silent River.